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(Wednesday’s sunset)
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Young Americans staying with me traveling with Maxwell(?) e-assist bikes - batteries in frame, and single speed with the motor kicking in as needed when things get steeper. Interesting approach...
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Guy on a flash road bike coming up our street with a lady in tow on another road bike..
Him: "Pull up on your cleats! Use different muscle groups! Look what I'm doing!"
Her: "I'm trying...."
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@iwrats. Nice vignette. What d'ja fink they are doin up your street?
Drive by Ned on a bike staring at me/my garage full of bikes on way back from Le Scotmid ce soir. I did have on my shirt speckled with little dots which are meant to resemble the smallest ocean going bird.
What is the smallest ocean going bird? (Clue, TS Eliot gives them a mention in one of the four quartets)
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@gembo
I know not. It's very mixed here, all sorts. They could have been lost on a training ride but I guess they were going out on an evening jaunt?
Storm petrel, innit? Or is it the St Kilda wren in winter?
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Yes storm petrel. The st kilda mouse is bigger than average maybe 125%
Fake training ride drive by scoping of area for bikes to steal disguised as boy girl training ride?
We overtook a woman on Whang today. This stirred her into action. She comes back passed me says something I did not quite catch but banter, I say it is easier to chase than to stay in front. She then passes trev at front and says See you in five mins. We overtook her maybe three mins later on hill, she said agin to Trev Dammit
100km later Trev's crank fell off
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100km later Trev's crank fell off
Moral: check if someone is a witch or not before overtaking with light-hearted banter.
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Nice moral, strangely watching the Tim burton movie Big Fish which despite being two hours has kept the kids attention. Lot of witch. Also Siamese twins, Giants midgets etc also the stupendous Albert Finney, who turned down his knighthood,
For clarity the woman cyclist was non witch and I do not think she cursed Trev's crank. But what do I know.
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Exchanged several greetings with @urchaidh whilst we were both exercising our (respective) kids at Glentress.
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I just spotted that this post will be the 11111th.
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Upwards of 100 runners on the towpath tonight. I think I had this about a year back. No identifying insignia. One corstorphine AAC but 99 plus in random t shirts. Also seemed to be doing sprints then slowing down.
Dashed tricky manoeuvring around but accomplished with some patience
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Following a bike along the towpath this morning. The rider was making good progress, but I'd rather written off the bike as a bit of a banger. The mudguard wasn't attached at the back at all: its stays we flapping around, and the drivetrain and rear wheel were covered in filth. As time passed I began to appreciate that things weren't quite what they seemed. First I noticed that the bike had a (mud covered) Alfine hub. Then I spotted that it had a belt drive.
So, despite appearing like a wreck there was actually a sophisticated bike under there...
It was moving quite fast too!
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The canal towpath is currently closed between the Bridge 8 Hub and the Cultins Road access path for bridge maintenance. Apparently it should be open by the end of the day, but in the meantime the pedestrian crossing over Calder Road is the official diversion.
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Job description
Data Analyst |Edinburgh Cycle Hire Scheme
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland with travel as required to other Serco contracts and client locations
Salary: Competitive + Company Car + Fantastic Benefits Package
Hours: 37.5 per weekCompany car. Fantastic.
Support the Managers in working with TfL, particularly in the development of the regular reporting against the agreed targetsTfL? Transport for Leith? Liberton? Lasswade?
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Someone at Serco a bit overkeen on cut & paste there.
(I am not a fan of Serco to start with...)
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Times would have to be hard before I worked for Serco. Shame that CEC engages with them at all.
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Another job description
Customer Services Advisers – Edinburgh Cycle Hire, Inverness, Scotland...
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Two FES vans parked on the grass at Dumbiedykes. Usually only one. THey sort of pull the trees over to hide themselves. The other morning in the same place (Where Brown Street meets the cycle path before it swings round to bump down onto Viewcrags Gdns) there was a massive camper van with little string earth for the lightning plugged into the ground as if it actually was a campsite. Not a grass verge.
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Spotted that Kirk Brae is really steep. Who knew?
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@IWRATS I would talk to my councillor about that if I were you
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@IWRATS, I would talk to the Duke boys. Didn't the lyrics of the song go, "Straightening the curves, flattening the hills…"?
Of course, it's possible I misheard them when I was ten years old and have knowingly misremembered them ever since.
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@Arellcat, "straightnin' the curves, flat'nin' the hills" to be more accurate.
@dougal or if upset by incline, he could talk to his counsellor instead.
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@Arellcat
Roscoe P Tanner more my style these days. I typed that name from ancient memory.
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Ah no, Roscoe Tanner the tennis dude. Coltrane. Roscoe P Coltrane.
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@unhurt, you're better at the accent than I am. :)
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@acsimpson heading home on the North path up to the bridge
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@paddyirish, I wondered if that was you.
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Foliage trimmers on the towpath west of Gogar Station Road Bridge. They had clearly also been along the section that was closed for bridge maintenance at some point yesterday too. The push along mower is seemingly leaving behind what is either an intentional chalk trail to show where it has been (although the decimated foliage gives a fairly clear indication of its passage) or the result of the underside of the machine which has been scraping the path surface. Swan family #2 seemed remarkably unperturbed about the situation as they floated near Hermiston House Garden.
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Sustrans Survey people by the Balgreen Tram stop. I stopped to have a chat and answer some transport related questions.
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